The Vanishing
Conscience
“Do not love the world or the things
in the world. If anyone loves the
world, the love of the Father is not
in him”
(1 Jn. 2:15)
1 John 2:15
• The love of the world competes with
the love of God
James 4:4, 5
4 Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not
know that friendship with the world is
enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants
to be a friend of the world makes himself an
enemy of God.
5 Or do you think that the Scripture says in
vain, "The Spirit who dwells in us yearns
jealously"?
2 Peter 2:6-8
“and if He condemned the cities of Sodom and
Gomorrah to destruction by reducing them to
ashes, having made them an example to those
who would live ungodly thereafter;
And if He rescued righteous Lot, oppressed by
the sensual conduct of unprincipled men
(for by what he saw and heard that righteous
man, while living among them, felt his righteous
soul tormented day after day with their lawless
deeds)”
ACCOUNTABILITY:
24 “I said therefore to you, that you shall die in your
JOHN 8
sins; for unless you believe that I am He, you shall
die in your sins.”
34 Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you,
everyone who commits sin is the slave of sin.”
We Need To Take Sin
Seriously
• SO WE DON’T INFLUENCE OTHERS TO
SIN
• SO WE DON’T LOSE OUR OWN SOULS
HOW HAVE WE BECOME
SO DESENSITIZED TO SIN?
• FAMILIARITY
HOW HAVE WE BECOME
SO DESENSITIZED TO SIN?
• FAMILIARITY
• EUPHEMISM
HOW HAVE WE BECOME
SO DESENSITIZED TO SIN?
• FAMILIARITY
• EUPHEMISM
• LAUGHTER
HOW HAVE WE BECOME
SO DESENSITIZED TO SIN?
• FAMILIARITY
• EUPHEMISM
• LAUGHTER
• PSYCHOLOGY
HOW HAVE WE BECOME
SO DESENSTIZED TO SIN?
• FAMILIARITY
• EUPHEMISM
• LAUGHTER
• PSYCHOLOGY
• COMPARISON
5 MOTIVATIONS OF
SENSITIVITY TO SIN
• SECOND COMING OF THE LORD
• THE EXAMPLE OF THE FATHER
• THE COMMAND OF SCRIPTURE
• THE JUDGMENT OF GOD
• THE DEATH OF CHRIST